Word: alighting
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...dimout became darker and dark er, Belgrade's mayor did his best to keep hope alight. When major repairs were completed at one of the power stations, he promised, the worst of the trouble would be over. Instead, last week came a final benighting announcement: all light and power in private houses throughout the entire capital will be shut off every day between 6 a.m. and 4 p.m. and for two evenings weekly...
Although undefeated and already crowned national champion, the varsity squash team goes into its match with Yale at New Haven tomorrow a alight underdog...
...long as victory smiled on Hitler's "intuitions," the mastiff barely lifted a paw against him. When a bomb was finally exploded in the Führer's presence in July 1944, he was stunned and his famed forelock was set alight, but he lived to revel in the torture deaths of many of the men who made the plot. So dear to Hitler's baleful eye was the sight of a German general slowly strangling on a slim cord at the end of a meathook that he had a film of the hangings...
...Waco, Baylorites got wind of the news and launched a counter-whammy: they bought up all the green candles in town and set them alight. Dr. William Richardson White, president of Baylor, a football hotblood himself, turned up at a feverish pre-game rally, reminded his listeners that Texas had spoiled Baylor streaks before, and promised: "This year it's going to be different...
...their ill-fitting Western suits, gather in places like the Teahouse of the Opening Lotus to discuss Korea's future. In buildings all over the city, shivering workmen sigh with relief as glass windows go in for the first time in three years. By night, streets are alight with candles as Koreans, with small trays mounted on wooden tripods, offer candy, chewing gum, apples and cigarettes. Said one U.S. economist on the scene: 'It looks to me as if one half of the Koreans are trying to sell bubble gum and candy to the other half...